I’m really hoping that legislation will be in place to curb this sort of thing by the time my kids are old enough to want to watch sports. I’m not thrilled at the prospect of those ads marinating in their young brains, and I don’t relish the thought of trying to explain to a credulous 8-year-old that we can’t win millions of dollars betting on hockey games.
Hoping is different than expecting, unfortunately.
What you’re hoping for is that governments go back to protecting people instead of being used by the rich to transfer wealth from the citizenry.
Everyone knows gambling has zero social benefit and does a lot of harm. But none of that matters because you can show up to a few congressmen with a few thousand dollars and they’ll do what you tell them, and no other congress critters will get in their way because every other congresscritter wants support for their grifts.
Government is working hard to find a million ways to redistribute wealth upward. Public advertising of gambling is just one more sign of corruption.
Seriously, why don’t these things have warnings on them like cigarettes. I see ads for the local casino that say stuff like “riches are just 3 exits down,” it’s crazy. Should also say “GAMBLING IS ADDICTIVE AND YOU WILL LOSE MONEY” or something.
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I’m really hoping that legislation will be in place to curb this sort of thing by the time my kids are old enough to want to watch sports. I’m not thrilled at the prospect of those ads marinating in their young brains, and I don’t relish the thought of trying to explain to a credulous 8-year-old that we can’t win millions of dollars betting on hockey games.
Hoping is different than expecting, unfortunately.
What you’re hoping for is that governments go back to protecting people instead of being used by the rich to transfer wealth from the citizenry.
Everyone knows gambling has zero social benefit and does a lot of harm. But none of that matters because you can show up to a few congressmen with a few thousand dollars and they’ll do what you tell them, and no other congress critters will get in their way because every other congresscritter wants support for their grifts.
Government is working hard to find a million ways to redistribute wealth upward. Public advertising of gambling is just one more sign of corruption.
But you can win it’s practically gaurenteed!
-Ads.
Seriously, why don’t these things have warnings on them like cigarettes. I see ads for the local casino that say stuff like “riches are just 3 exits down,” it’s crazy. Should also say “GAMBLING IS ADDICTIVE AND YOU WILL LOSE MONEY” or something.
Nah, ads should just not be allowed to lie in any form whatsoever.
Yes, this includes Redbull if it does not actually give you functional wings.
They do have that in Australia
But of course, they rely on people thinking “yeah, but that won’t happen to me because I’m somehow different”
They’re obviously the dumbest
As Dr Karl says: gambling is a tax for being bad at math